In the craziest play of October, Alex Rodriguez was called out for interference. New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman agreed the umpires were correct to overturn their original ruling.NFL has it, what do you think of baseball having it?
"They got it completely right, 100 percent," Cashman said this week.
"But you would hate to have a game, or a series or even a season come down to a play where they miss it and instant replay could have helped. So as far as instant replay, I'm in favor of it."
Thursday, November 11, 2004
21st Century Baseball
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In favor of the concept in general, but right now they need to speed the games up a bit, not slow them down. If baseball would take care of some other problems (like limiting the number of times a pitcher can throw to a base to keep the runner close, like reducing all the late-inning pitching changes), then maybe we could talk about instant replay.
Paul, I'd go along with your two suggestions as well. Bill James commented recently about Mike Hargrove, a 1980s ballplayer who used to be called the Human Rain Delay, and said that if he played today, nobody would comment on his antics because everybody does it.
As for limiting throwing to first, it wouldn't be hard to do. Say that you get a free throw to try to pick off any baserunner at any base, but the second time if you don't succeed he's awarded second. You could do something similar with the reliever conga line; say that a reliever brought in in mid-inning can only be replaced after he has faced at least three batters or given up a run.
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